Yelloweyed grasses
Yelloweyed grasses is a genus of flowering plants, in the yelloweyed grasses family. The leaves are mostly distichous, linear, flat, and thin or round with a conspicuous sheath at the base. The small, yellow flowers are dioecious, borne on a spherical or cylindrical spike or head (inflorescence). Each flower grows from the axil of a leathery bract. The fruit is a nonfleshy, dehiscent capsule. The genus counts over 250 species, widespread over much of the world, with the center of distribution in the Guianas.